International Women's Day 2018 - Press for Progress

Women, the true power of the human existence, the reason and the only source for the
world to move on. Today we are celebrating The International Women’s day, and
this is the fourth consecutive year I am writing the blog post on Women’s day,
I treat this as an honour to do so.
Because, whenever I get the opportunity to speak about the women, I would
include myself in the first row, because their importance and the topic
importance is much needed in our society today.

We are reading, hearing and watching daily about the
gender equality on the TV shows, Newspapers and few campaigns. But, to what
extent they are able to impact the society is still unknown. In some villages,
there are early marriages, the girl who wishes
to study further is restricted, and many crimes are happening against her,
harassments, both physically and mentally. All these challenges are yet to be
overcome.

There are major changes in the educational field,
some are very much appreciated, but the basic right for education for a female
child is kept far from the topics. Paper works are not going to change this, we
need to take action and bring the required change as soon as possible. We may
celebrate many Women’s Days, but without any improvement, nothing is going to
be a discussion worthy. All the campaigns, all the press notes, everything will
be only meaningful if we see the change in the values. When a girl proudly
shares her success story in any field, many are thinking that she didn’t make her on her own, they will create rumours on her success instead of appreciation
she will take all the degradation and negative compliments.

Unfortunately,
even the literates mostly don’t
understand the importance of gender equality. This is not a time to point out
the challenges, this is the time to discuss and implement on how we can defeat
them in the future.

Till now we have seen many speeches about the women
empowerment, the reality is those who are suppressing the gender equality are
still persisting in the society. We are unable to find the right solution for
this.

It is the right time to power the powerful being. The woman is not weak, she performs multi-role in both the personal life and
professional life. She has the ability to built the families and her as a mother, as a sister, as a wife, and as
a good friend, she builds the
relationships.

It is the time to kill the feeling that women are a weaker section of
the society. It is the time, we need to make ourselves aware to realize the
true passion of a woman. They are equal to men, and they have the right to education and employment.

When speaking about the marriage, parents and the
families must give the priority to her choice. But, still, in many of the Indian villages, we see that when a girl
crosses 18 years of age, everyone focuses
on when she is going to get married. This pushes the parents to hurry up the
marriage proses, and this speedy process will involve many risks. How many
cases have we seen till today that the
girl is being killed by the reason of something like dowry? Many cases. This is
another big topic, dowry system is not taking the lives, but the mind system of the culture. A middle-class family with girls as their children will spend their half-life thinking and plan about their girl’s marriage.

Dowry is the biggest enemy of the parents. We are still failing in eradicating this, some
defend this system and some call this as a culture. Even the educated guys fall
prey to the dowry. Who is the cause for this? How to stop this torturous process
in our country? We need to raise our
voice in this and implement few things which will make necessary changes in the
evil system.

Whose mistake is here? Whom to point out? Many
people are negotiating the dowry in our society, we are helpless here, we are
back stepping here because we are not feeling that as a problem of our own.

Being the citizen of India we all have to feel
responsible for removing these evil systems from the society. Just initiate the
process and the result will be experienced in the coming generations, at least
they won’t have to fight with the same problems again.

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #PressforProgress below is the option to press your vote as support.
Don't think as a waste of time, it is a beginning step to bring the change.

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About Prasanna DasariPrasanna Dasari is a Blogger and an Engineer who is interested in sharing his views and thoughts with the world through his writings and inspire others and get inspired from them. Apart from this he is a Public Speaker, Author and an Influencer. He loves teaching too.